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Re: F-PROT and Stoned variant (PC)

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From: Chip Seymour
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:18
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>From V5 #200:

> We may have found a new variety of STONED on our campus. 
> F-Prot 2.06a identified it as a STONED virus but refused to
> remove it. 

We've had three instances of the same problem here. In two cases FDISK
/MBR corrected the problem with no adverse side-effects. The user in
the third case is reluctant to run FDISK on a DOS 3.0 machine.
 
Anyone know what'll happen if we do that?

(The virus came from a local high school.)

Chip Seymour
Computervision Corp.
Bedford MA
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Subject: Re: F-PROT and Stoned variant (PC)
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